xviii, 785 pages : 25 cm

This is an assessment of those technical factors that contributed to or retarded the advance of surgery

Includes bibliographical references (page 720)

Includes indexes

Overview. -- Wound management in amputation. -- Debridement. -- Lithotomy and lithotomists. -- Prostatic obstruction. -- Intestinal obstructions. -- Gastric surgery. -- Tracheostomy and respiratory obstruction. -- Empyema. -- Cesarean section. -- Ectopic pregnancy. -- Ovariotomy (Excision of ovarian cyst) -- Vesicovaginal fistula. -- Phlebotomy. -- Vascular surgery. -- Anesthesia. -- Antiseptics. -- Early hospital practices. -- Hospital reformers, sanitarians, and surgical accountability. -- Germ theory of infection and disease. -- Nineteenth-century discoverers and discoveries. -- The surgical amphitheatre. -- Preparations for operation. -- Surgery of war. -- Surgical specialization. -- Retrospect and prospect

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